Solidice - another site hosting addons without permission
Would like to draw you attention to another site:
http://s o l i d i c e. c o m/downloads/world-of-warcraft?page=1 |
oQueue, eh.. figures.
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You gotta be s****ing me. I would have figured Tiny would have known better than to host AddOns without permission.
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I do believe the email to send to their host is
[email protected] Updated the base DMCA notice if it's any help. |
If you want to try talking to them directly, a 'conversation' has been started in this thread http://s o l i d i c e . c o m/forums/544/topic/site-upgrade. Down toward the bottom of page one and then continuing on from there.
IMOO, they are deliberately being more than just a little obtuse. |
Ress'ed a new thread, humm. Old problem, new site.
/me grabs popcorn Edit: I see the thread got split. |
So apparently, going by Tiny's logic, it's alright is somebody uploads his addons elsewhere.
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EDIT: Seems they have enough sense to at least do something. Quote:
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My personal favourite was
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F***ing worthless leeches. All of my addons they're illegally redistributing include clearly worded LICENSE files that clearly state they cannot be redistributed without permission, and there are no shortage of free resources on the Internet that could clear up these morons' willful ignorance about copyright if they actually cared to do the right thing instead of being d***wads and p***ing on the addon author community. I sincerely hope these a******s all get pancreatic cancer and die.
(Placing my bet on 4 words in this post being replaced by asterisks. Edit: None? Really? Guess the word filter isn't working...) |
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I was surprised to see them not blocked out too. Will have to poke dolby to see what might have turned off the word filter. Also, don't wish cancer on them. Wish something short term, with no long term ramifications. ie something that would really hurt a lot, but not injure. ;) |
Colitis might be good. :D
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Edit: They didn't reply to my post on their forum thread, but they did remove the two addons of mine they were hosting. At least that was far less painful than dealing with TenTonHammer and their endless weaselling and begging me to "work with them". :rolleyes: |
We can assure you that we are moving forward with the utmost desire to abide by the requirements of any and all licenses applied to any addon. Any possible oversight or inability to do so previously is regrettable and was surely not performed with malicious intent. We aim to only host / distribute those addons which are licensed as allowing such. Our deepest apologies for any offence, we wish to support and grow with this community, not spite it. Moving forward will surely be difficult as the stone has been thrown.
Contrast to TenTonHammer, we wish to work with you, not you work with us, and maybe we did not start off on the right foot. I hope this can be taken sincerely. |
When you let someone like tiny weasly around the way he did you make it so very much harder on yourself.
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@ronburgundyy:
I'm very concerned that, of ALL the information you scraped off of Curse for the addons you are hosting, you removed the author name for every file except for the ones belonging to tiny. Also, let me remind you of another reason (besides copyright) why authors hate finding versions of their work elsewhere: We don't know it's there. If something is broken, we don't know it. If a user asks a question, we don't know it. If a complaint does come around our way about some bug or something not working, we spend time figuring out how that could be - they say they're using the latest version, but we already fixed that! (But we didn't upload the fix to your site, because we don't know about it.) Lastly, yes. tiny sounding like a Comcast rep left a very bad taste in my mouth (and I'm sure I'm not the only one). Only hearing what he wants to hear, belligerently asking the same questions over and over... This is what I was reminded of while reading his comments. And this is only compounded by the fact that his is the only work that is attributed to an author on your site, AND that his work is marked All Rights Reserved (would he mind others uploading it elsewhere without his knowledge?). /edit: As mentioned, you might just have tons of authors flocking to your site if you do it the right way. But there is no shortcut to success. |
As per the removal of the Author name, that was a poor design decision, and was not meant in any way to suggest that Solidice authored or laid claim to any addon in which the author name was omitted. One of several unfortunate mistakes during this endeavor.
We 100% intend, and have intended for persons to have the ability to claim their addons in the near future. You also raise a very good point concerning the lack of notification to addon authors, which could certainly rise to confusion from users, and an increase in technical and support issues as there could be differences in available versions from different sources. We hope that once authors are able to claim their addons this concern will have been addressed, and in the mean time are ready and willing to work with the community to reduce and prevent further confusion, complications, or annoyances. As it is not my place to comment on the actions of any other person, I can assure you that I am dedicated to ensuring a positive progression for the relationship of Solidice and the addon community and its authors. |
Yes, but authors shouldn't have to "claim" their addons. At the very least, you should contact them at Curse and tell them that you have re-hosted the addon elsewhere. Otherwise, how would they know to go claim it? :confused:
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